Hydey's Garden Corner - Your Problems Solved With A Smile

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Obviously Hydey will be desperate to answer your questions with his usual charity, good grace and humour, Sneak, so I'll leave them to him. I'd've thought, though, that you could've taken the plant with you to Vegas in place of that - what was it exactly your lovely wife was carrying? Half a Californian Redwood?

[SuperSneak]

It was a boquet of callilily's, a flower so dear to her she has seen fit to render it permanently on her "lower back".

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Above or below or beside the permanent record of your place in her heart?

[SuperSneak]

That would be below....but it is very well done.

You have no idea how difficult it is to find callilily's in Vegas.

[Alexander's Horse]

Originally posted by Hydey


Forget the water, give them some sun

stupid ****** think sun shines through fences

Hydey, the Photinia hedge is in full sun

You've been to my house, you've seen it

Is all your advice this good?

[SuperSneak]

Hmmmm.....your real name isn't Chauncy, is it Hydey?

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So in which oeuvre do we file that gag, Sneak?

1. Hal Ashby-directed features.
2. Peter Sellers' last fine effort before he made a couple of outright stinkers and died.
3. A novel written by Jerzy Kosinski in 1971.
4. Films directed by and starring the now deceased.

[SuperSneak]

I certainly have to vote for Sellers, as it was a superlative effort...a beautiful touch he had in that one. And I can see Hydey, when asked to help clear the dishes, utter with great conviction "I like to watch".

Kosinski was a hack, for the most part. Though being unpublished I ought not to critique...but he just reeks of touchy feeley boomer angst...kind of like a poor man's Richard Bach (who is sweet to the point of illness as well).

Can't say anything informed about Ashby--what else has he done?

As for #4...that's much too wide a field for one of my tender years. Best left to the antiquarians in the group.

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Originally posted by SuperSneak
Can't say anything informed about Ashby--what else has he done?

He didn't direct a whole lot given the timespan of his career. His best-known stuff would be Harold and Maude - a wonderful black comedy; The Last Detail - a great character study of 2 Marine Military Police (one of them Jack Nicholson) taking a third Marine cross-country to military jail; Shampoo - Warren Beatty playing an over-sexed hairdresser in what is largely a quite witty political satire; and, of course, Being There. He had some fairly major coke problems along the way, along with some pretty massive insecurities and a preference for the cinematic off-beat. Not a hugely sensible combination. Died in the late 1980s.

Harold and Maude and The Last Detail (in particular) are well worth seeing.

[Alexander's Horse]

Originally posted by SuperSneak

Kosinski was a hack, for the most part. Though being unpublished I ought not to critique...

No please, go right ahead

[SuperSneak]

Originally posted by finbar


He didn't direct a whole lot given the timespan of his career. His best-known stuff would be Harold and Maude - a wonderful black comedy; The Last Detail - a great character study of 2 Marine Military Police (one of them Jack Nicholson) taking a third Marine cross-country to military jail; Shampoo - Warren Beatty playing an over-sexed hairdresser in what is largely a quite witty political satire; and, of course, Being There. He had some fairly major coke problems along the way, along with some pretty massive insecurities and a preference for the cinematic off-beat. Not a hugely sensible combination. Died in the late 1980s.

Harold and Maude and The Last Detail (in particular) are well worth seeing.

I've seen Harold and Maude and loved it...The Last Detail I've only seen bits of. Beatty is sort of an annoyance to me. Too bad Ashby didn't have his act together...he did some good films, there.

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Sneak - for a fascinating, even enthralling analysis of Hollywood in the 1970s - including Hal Ashby's career - you should read Easy Riders, Raging Bulls by Peter Biskind. Highly, highly recommended.

[Alexander's Horse]

I wouldn't put too much weight on his tastes in movies Sneak - he doesn't like Bladerunner

[SuperSneak]

I'll check it out...as soon as I finish Gene Wolfe's Torturer series for the second time. Great sci fantasy, if you're inclined.

[SuperSneak]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
I wouldn't put too much weight on his tastes in movies Sneak - he doesn't like Bladerunner

That is criminal, but I suppose he isn't a fan of noir film, or he would like it.

Maybe he got turned down for the part Ford had and has just been inconsoleable ever since. You know how those movie types are--never forget a slight.